AMMAN — The Cabinet on Sunday approved funding a project to revamp the desert highway at $105 million through a soft loan from the Saudi Fund for Development.
The Council of Ministers had earlier approved a $65 million grant agreement from the fund for the project, which seeks to rehabilitate the heavily used desert highway between Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
The project's total cost amounts to $170 million, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. The Council of Ministers also approved a draft law on the protection from family violence and submitted it to Parliament.